Niederrennersdorf Castle
The Niederrennersdorf Castle was located halfway up on a flat mountain slope on the banks of the Pließnitz . A pond dammed in the valley probably reinforced the protection. The square vaulted hall was preceded by a 22-meter-high tower, through whose ground floor the entrance was made. The castle has different building eras, the elements of which may date back to the Gothic . Around the year 1718, extensive construction work was carried out on the south side to expand the property. The castle was set on fire in May 1945; the remaining ruins were torn down in the following years. Remnants are difficult to see today.
history
A Hans zu Reynersdorf is mentioned in 1413 from the von Radeberg family. Under the von Gersdorf family, who had owned the knight's seat Reinherstorf, which was recorded in the town register of Görlitz in 1406, since 1464, a double row of owners of the goods from Ober- and Nieder-Rennersdorf can be recognized after 1477. Heinrich von Heinersdorf is recorded in 1480, and the von Lottitz family for two decades from 1521. The owners changed several times over the next centuries. From 1541 the von Breitenbach family, from 1560 the von Gersdorf family, from 1572 the von Schwantz family, from 1584 the von Klüx auf Strahwalde family, which had owned Ober-Rennersdorf since 1581, and then the von family again from 1594 Gersdorf. In 1643 Nieder-Rennersdorf passed to the sisters Anna Margarethe von Nostitz and Anna Sophie, both born von Gersdorf, who owned jointly until 1647. In 1648 Anna Margarethe became the sole owner of Nieder-Rennersdorf. It was followed in 1649 by the von Eberhard family, who sold the manor in 1718 to the mayor of Zittau, Johann Christian Nesen. The following owners were Christiane Sophie von Carlowitz from 1727, Christian Siegfried Nesen from 1759 and the von Mücke family from 1793. The von Mücke family kept the castle in family ownership until it was expropriated in 1945. The farm and lease was relocated in the course of the land reform.
literature
- Karl Gustav Maximilian von Mücke: The manor to Nieder-Rennersdorf and its owners . A contribution to the local history of Upper Lusatia, Mr. Gustav Adolph Maximilian von Mücke Majoratsherr von Nieder-Rennersdorf for the jubilee consecration of the 25-year-old property on October 13, 1843. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1843, DNB 361238347 .
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony : Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau . CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1910, p. 432–442 ( digitized version of the SLUB Dresden [accessed on October 27, 2015]).
- Boetticher, Walter von: History of the Upper Lusatian Aristocracy and its Goods 1635–1815, Volume 3, pp. 408–409, Oberlößnitz near Dresden 1919, self-published by the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz ( digitized version of the University of Düsseldorf , accessed on November 15, 2016 )
